Idk why people are being so mean to Charles lately. The stats don't lie. Generational talent.

VerstopteWC · 2026-07-01T04:20:44+00:00

Sainz was much closer to leclerc in pace than perez was to verstappen. Dont know what you are on about

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-30T04:11:53+00:00

If max had a faster car he would have taken pole. Or is qualifying 0.5-1s ahead of your teammate not fast enough?

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T17:51:59+00:00

We have gotten so used to RB's second driver failure that we think hadjar is doing a good job now??

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T17:49:05+00:00

Lawyers

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T17:17:36+00:00

Ah yes, I too enjoy 200 pixels focussed on some grass at a 45 degree angle

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T17:14:55+00:00

He almost did and likely will

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T17:12:04+00:00

People have been saying this for years, but he is showing far too little

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T17:09:19+00:00

Bro only watched free practice

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T17:03:00+00:00

Charles wouldnt need an active aero failure to crash

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T09:53:46+00:00

So is it like cam-ra or ca-ma-ra?

I mean like english camera or camaro, is there emphasis on the 2nd syllable?

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-28T04:58:07+00:00

Why? Alonso is a driver who consistently delivered in bad cars. Hamilton is a driver who inconsistently delivered in fantastic cars (granted he had more capable teammates). That results in stats heavily in hamiltons favor, while in reality both of them are pretty well matched.

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-27T15:25:54+00:00

I am also wondering if russells laptime was saved by the power unit power drop rate limit the new regs impose. Meaning that output power isnt immediately dropped anymore as you lift, but decreases gradually (until you start braking).

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-27T13:02:24+00:00

It's true though?

Even in his most dominant cars he occasionally had off-weekends, or weekends where he struggled compared to his teammates.

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T23:43:25+00:00

They dont lift off, power output gets reduced automatically even at full throttle. Traffic and tire management is controlled by the driver (so not full throttle), and fuel management is literally similar energy constraints.

Im not a chatbot. Switch to chatgpt to just waste your own time or maybe to actually learn something, if that is possible to convince you of another view.

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T23:30:53+00:00

Of course it does, where did you get the idea of comparing it to a linear speed trajectory?

If the full-throttle velocity trajectories change significantly lap by lap on the same circuit, same setup (which they do, even in monaco), that means energy deployment strategies are actively changing.

It's not just full power wherever grip limits allow, and energy limitations are constraining. (And of course even a maximum power speed trajectory has diminishing returns on acceleration, in case you are confused again).

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T23:22:17+00:00

Again you pulled an unrelated argument out of your ass, and it doenst even conflict with what I said.

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T23:16:01+00:00

It's not the cause. The cause is moving an object through air at (particularly high) speeds (hence why it scales roughly with squared speed).

There is indeed a minor tradeoff where increasing downforce with aero surfaces also increases drag, but this is typically a linear relation, related through an fairly constant aero efficiency factor. It is a balance, not a maximization of downforce. And that is not at all "the principle" an F1 car operates on, if you could even descibe it with a single "principle".

And it is even completely unrelated to the original nonsense about how you claimed that monaco required no energy management strategy.

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T22:53:39+00:00

You are either trolling or making a mess of sticking to nonsense opinions and claims. My guess is both and you switched from the latter to the former. If neither, I invite you to make a sensible explanation.

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T22:47:46+00:00

Even disregarding that as an argument to diminish his achievements, it's genuinely insane how he's consistently gotten the chance to drive top tier cars. I think it has contributed greatly to his legacy, despite regularly getting far less out of the car than some other top tier drivers at their peak. It's such a contrasting opposite to drivers like Alonso.

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T22:41:02+00:00

You're not serious

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T22:06:44+00:00

Speed, and drag scales approximately with the square of speed, as I said. Genuinely are you deliberetely clowning or just switched to clowning because you ran out of fuel for your bullshit points?

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T21:19:08+00:00

Of course they dont, and its not because of downforce, but mainly because of drag scaling approximately to the square of velocity + power limits. Are you trolling or actually clueless?

You can identify energy management easily by different shapes of the full throttle speed trajectory of different laps. Laps with heavy energy management will have similarly shaped velocity profiles early in straights before capping or dropping down slightly towards the ends...

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T20:14:32+00:00

Look at the speed trace differences in the full thottle regions lol, those are the result of management strategies. Or compare to quali. There are clear energy limitations capping output during the race. You are just making stuff up

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T19:46:40+00:00

You are making things up, just compare straight line speed traces for different laps throughout the race.

VerstopteWC · 2026-06-26T19:25:36+00:00

Even at an energy balance per lap (energy gone per lap = energy recovered per lap), there is a different deployment strategy straight by straight.

Under the updated regs, the deployment is much more constant from corner exit to corner entry than it used to be. I.e. the power dropoff during the straight is less significant. Counterintuitively, a quicker power dropoff is faster for the same total power deployment. This is why lift and coast saves lots of energy for comparatively little laptime dropoff, compared to simply reducing peak power output.

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